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All things truly wicked start from an innocence. -- Hemingway, Ernest | Innocence Send to friend | View Books by Hemingway, Ernest at Amazon.com | Books about Innocence at Amazon.com Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child. -- Traherne, Thomas | Innocence Send to friend | View Books by Traherne, Thomas at Amazon.com | Books about Innocence at Amazon.com Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness. -- Wollstonecraft, Mary | Innocence Send to friend | View Books by Wollstonecraft, Mary at Amazon.com | Books about Innocence at Amazon.com Every harlot was a virgin once. -- Blake, William | Innocence Send to friend | View Books by Blake, William at Amazon.com | Books about Innocence at Amazon.com He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass. -- Horace | Innocence Send to friend | View Books by Horace at Amazon.com | Books about Innocence at Amazon.com I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens. -- Woolf, Virginia | Innocence Send to friend | View Books by Woolf, Virginia at Amazon.com | Books about Innocence at Amazon.com I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't. -- Thomas, Dylan | Innocence Send to friend | View Books by Thomas, Dylan at Amazon.com | Books about Innocence at Amazon.com If you would live innocently, seek solitude. -- Syrus, Publilius | Innocence Send to friend | View Books by Syrus, Publilius at Amazon.com | Books about Innocence at Amazon.com Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. -- Greene, Graham | Innocence Send to friend | View Books by Greene, Graham at Amazon.com | Books about Innocence at Amazon.com Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends. -- South, Bishop Robert | Innocence Send to friend | View Books by South, Bishop Robert at Amazon.com | Books about Innocence at Amazon.com Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue. -- France, Anatole | Innocence Send to friend | View Books by France, Anatole at Amazon.com | Books about Innocence at Amazon.com Innocent as a dove you will harm no one, but wise as a serpent no one will harm you. -- Haug | Innocence Send to friend | View Books by Haug at Amazon.com | Books about Innocence at Amazon.com It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be. -- France, Anatole | Innocence Send to friend | View Books by France, Anatole at Amazon.com | Books about Innocence at Amazon.com It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. -- McLaughlin, Mignon | Innocence Send to friend | View Books by McLaughlin, Mignon at Amazon.com | Books about Innocence at Amazon.com No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking. -- Benedict, Ruth | Innocence Send to friend | View Books by Benedict, Ruth at Amazon.com | Books about Innocence at Amazon.com Quote: 1-15 of 29 Pages: 1 of 2 next  View all quotes